While powerful, AI technologies are no panacea for immature enterprise security architectures, and they can only be applied successfully after the fundamentals of cyber defence are well covered, multiple security practitioner panellists argued. This ground layer, they said, includes system hardening, patching, access control, monitoring, and the like.
Darren Kimuli, information security lead at reinsurance firm Canopius Group, told delegates that AI deployments need to match the expectations of the business — including how an organisation meets its regulatory obligations.
“I’m more concerned about what AI fits rather than what it replaces,” Kimuli said.
Changing roles
Divine Uzodinma, cybersecurity analyst at managed services and telecom vendor Radius, said AI systems help security analysts correlate and triage security logs, a traditionally labour-intensive task.
